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Lisa Dawn Angerame

Lisa Dawn took her first yoga class 16 years ago and began a journey of discovery that is still ongoing. For Lisa Dawn, the spiritual discipline of yoga is a source of strength and healing. Daily practice continues to manifest physical, emotional, and spiritual insights that run deep. Study of the beautiful Sanskrit language through the Yoga Sutra and the Bhagavad Gita brings an even deeper understanding of the yoga practice.↵↵Lisa Dawn has over 1,800 hours of training. She is an Advanced Certified Jivamukti teacher, a certified Baptiste Power Vinyasa teacher, has trained with Jonny Kest and Paul Grilley, and is certified to teach Pre and Post Natal yoga.ÊLisa Dawn also publishes a vegan food blog calledÊLisa's Project: Vegan.
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Yoga Sutras, Abridged

By Lisa Dawn Angerame

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, a masterwork of spirituality, psychology and philosophy, are attributed to Patanjali. Compiled a few hundred years before the Common Era, these teachings arose out of a most prolific and sophisticated civilization – ancient India.

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The Kleshas: Five Obstacles to Awareness

By Lisa Dawn Angerame

The Goddess Pose: A Conversation with Michelle Goldberg

By Lisa Dawn Angerame

One Principle, Seven Options

By Lisa Dawn Angerame

Gunas: the Three Qualities of Matter

By Lisa Dawn Angerame

As the gunas churn together, the manifest world of Prakriti evolves out of the primordial matrix. From the subtlest aspects of the mind – the intellect, the ego, and the lower mind – to the grossest aspects of human existence – the senses and their objects and the great elements of earth, water, fire, air, and ether.

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Distractions & Obstacles

Where do these thoughts come from? Patanjali says that the field of the mind produces distractions, called the citta vikshepa, which in turn create obstacles, called antarayas.

By Lisa Dawn Angerame
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All About Ishvara

Ask the question: Who is Ishvara and how will special devotion bring me to that high level of super consciousness?

By Lisa Dawn Angerame
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Super Consciousness

The state of super consciousness that arises when the mind is brought under control by systematically moving inward and becomes quiet enough to experience the true Self.

By Lisa Dawn Angerame
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Practice & Detachment

There is an eloquent order to this philosophical work that is thrilling even when it is esoteric and mysterious.

By Lisa Dawn Angerame
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The Five Activities of the Mind

According to the sutras, we gain correct knowledge three ways. The first is pratyaksha which literally translates as that which is visible to the eye.

By Lisa Dawn Angerame
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We Will Never Not Have Thoughts

As long as we are embodied beings, we will never not have thoughts. This is the … problem?

By Lisa Dawn Angerame
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Fourteen Words, Infinite Possibility

Right now. At this moment. The present moment. It isn’t just now – as in the teachings are starting right now – but it is now, as in the promise and the goal of Yoga.

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From Matter into Spirit

The teachings are mystical, magical, practical and popular. There is so much wisdom embedded within the Vedas, the Upanishads, the six orthodox schools of thought which include Yoga.

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